- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:20:04 -0500
- To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, uri@bunyip.com
> 8th bit of URL MUST be 0. Should a malformed URL is found, > its 8th bit MAY be masked to be 0. Otherwise the URL MUST > be rejected. > >Then, non-ASCII URLs will disappear. If anyone speaks to you in anything other than English, reject the sentence. Quite an appealing idea. >You can see that no people are using mail address with kanji, which >is why we can communicate internationally. I think that using legacy systems as justification for the design of new systems is a very poor way to design software.
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